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The Lowell House windows provide an elegant frame to a recent rainy day scene in Cambridge.

Docents sought for Semitic Museum The Semitic Museum at Harvard University is looking for volunteers to guide tours for the upcoming exhibit “The Houses of Ancient Israel: Domestic, Royal, Divine,”…

Programs for city children before, during, and after school are the battleground for the nations future, and the quality of those programs will determine what kind of country we will be, Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers said Friday (Oct. 3).

This fall two exhibitions and a symposium commemorate the 50th anniversary of the appointment of Josep Lluis Sert as dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD).

Provost Steven E. Hyman announced the appointment today of Thomas W. Lentz as Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard University Art Museums, effective Nov. 15. Lentz is currently director of international art museums at the Smithsonian Institution.

The Memorial Church will host one of Americas most popular Buddhist teachers, Sharon Salzberg, for a two-day meditation workshop. Salzberg will present Meditation in the Memorial Church on Oct. 24, from 7 to 10 p.m., and Oct. 25, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Praised by the Dalai Lama as a psychologically skillful accessible teacher,…

In his long lifetime, Brad Washburn 35 has ascended heights most of us dont even dream of. Since scaling Europes highest peaks at age 16, hes mapped the now-standard route up Alaskas Mt. McKinley, created definitive maps of that mountain plus Mt. Everest, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and, in a reverse of altitude,…

HBS Press, RHK form venture Harvard Business School Press (HBS Press) and Random House Kodansha (RHK) recently announced that they will form a partnership to co-publish a select number of…

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall on the following dates:

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Oct. 4. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

A memorial service for Nancy Millette Mosher will be held Oct. 10 at 2 p.m. in the Memorial Church. A long-time associate of the University, Mosher taught in the Institute for Learning in Retirement.

The Cambridge Housing Assistance Fund (CHAF) generated more than $150,000 at its fifth annual Benefit Concert held at Sanders Theatre last Friday night (Oct. 3). The funds are earmarked to help homeless Cambridge residents transition into affordable housing.

A memorial service for Franklin Ford, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History Emeritus, will be held Nov. 20 at 2 p.m. at the Memorial Church.

Three Harvard faculty members are among this years 24 MacArthur Fellows, which the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced Sunday (Oct. 5). Each is a recipient of the fellowships $500,000 no strings attached grant.

Harvards Program on U.S.-Japan Relations has recently selected 16 fellows for the 2003-04 academic year. Founded in 1980, the program enables outstanding scholars and practitioners to come together to conduct independent research and participate in an ongoing dialogue with other members of the Harvard and Greater Boston communities.

The 2004 presidential contest is heating up, with recent polls showing President Bush increasingly vulnerable, but with a Democratic presidential field so far lacking a strong enough candidate to boot him from the job, ABC News political director told a Kennedy School audience last week (Sept. 25).

Neighbors from near and far enjoyed Harvards six museums for free Sunday (Sept. 28) during the Universitys first-ever Museums Community Day. The Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Sackler art museums and the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, and Semitic Museum welcomed over a thousand new friends and old with special events…

Eleven scientists from The Forsyth Institute who volunteered their time to mentor students from the Boston Public Schools (BPS) all summer saw the fruits of their work early last month (Sept. 10). Thats when the students, many of whom have won city, state, and international science fair competitions, gave formal presentations to an audience of…

Law School Professor Mary Ann Glendon, an expert on family and human rights law, was one of four winners of the first Bradley Prize, a new $250,000 award given for achievements that promote liberal democracy, democratic capitalism and the vigorous defense of American institutions.

On a visit to the University, Foreign Minister of India Yashwant Sinha (right) shakes hands with President Lawrence H. Summers in Harvard Yard.

A high-level group of academic leaders and policy-makers from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh met with U.S. academics at Harvard recently for a conference delving into South Asias most intractable problems. The conference kicked off a new initiative to expand South Asian studies, as Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean William C. Kirby re-evaluates the undergraduate…

Harvard alum C. Weldon Jones, a former teaching fellow in biology (1976-1980) and a visiting scholar (1988-89) at the University, passed away on Sept. 21. He was 50.

A sudden downpour, a flash flood, and a Yard full of freshmen conspired to bring shy, disconnected students together better than any orientation session could. On the afternoon of Sept. 23, the skies above Cambridge opened up, and in a few minutes created a mud puddle that could call out the inner child in an…

The Office for the Arts (OFA) is now accepting spring project grant applications through Oct. 8. Grants are available to Harvard undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff for original work, or work showing an original, creative approach to artistic traditions. Apply online at www.fas.harvard.edu/~ofa. For more information, contact Stephanie Troisi, program associate, at troisi@fas.harvard.edu.

Eighteen new fellows and senior fellows have joined the Center for Business and Government (CBG) at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). CBG fellows are selected as a result of their demonstrated leadership in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors, or because of their scholarship concerning the interface of business and government.

Bonnie Solomon, a photographer who worked at Harvard for more than four decades making slides of artworks for students and professors, died at her home in Cambridge Sept. 8 after a brief struggle with cancer. She was 72.